How to Connect External Mic to your Smartphone (Android/iPhone) 

Man, I have been trying to sort this out for months, and have tried half a dozen different methods...wish I'd come across your video right off the bat. Thank you!!

Yes! I couldn't find a good tutorial on how to set up a microphone anywhere else, and the only ones I did find where really complicated. You made it really simplified and easy to do! Thank you!

When you finally found a helpful tutorial:

Finally.. An English title with english language speakers..

Thank You, random good guy from RU-vid. You saved me some googling.

THANK YOU! I learned more in these 5 minutes than I did searching through the user manual online.

This is the marvel of RU-vid thanks to the ingenuity and generosity of people like you. Thank you.

thanks man, i was provided with the splitter cable along with mic but had neglected it for a long time

Thank you dude.... I just bought a 350$ microphone and I was very angry when I found out it didn't work

Thank you Rajat. I search in my box of cables and I found it. It was your tutorial that helped me to set up my Facebook live. My gratitude.

Thank you for letting me know about this, I was going crazy thinking that my wireless microphone was not working.

My mom was blaming saying that the mic i ordered was broken Fixed it like a pro Thanks sir!

thank you sooo much for this video. i started thinking that there's no way to connect a mic to my phone and i felt devastated thinking i will have to keep my earphones' mic. i found this type of adaptor online and i'm gonna place an order right now. thank you once again!

This clarifies allot! Thanks!

Thank you! Your video saved me a bunch of time! 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍

Thank you, Rajat. Short and straight to the point.

Rajat, Excellent Tutorial!! I wish more vlogs were as thorough as you. You showed us how it would not work, then you showed us how to make it work with a simple adapter. CUDOS to you my friend!!!

Thank you! I've been trying to figure this out. Just ordered the adapter :)

I just purchased a Lavalier mic for use with my LG Stylo 4 android. I saw some concerns about using the mic with an android. Your video was VERY helpful! Hoping that, with the adapter, it will work :-) Thank you for the video!

Very informative and exactly what I needed to know. Thanks!

Thanks for reminding me that I already own a TRRS splitter.

Great tutorial Rajat. Thank you. Is there a way to connect an external mic via Bandlab, and cutting off the internal mic. Instead of using an audio interface, can I.... safely... use a USB soundcard connected to phone, via an OTG adaptor cable....then plug the external mic into the soundcard mic socket? Thanks?

Haha.. That's the tutorial people need.. worth it..

thank you so much! i had no idea which side of the audio splitter to use so this video was really helpful

Thanks Rajat! I never knew all this.

Excellent! You have helped me big time!

Thank So much Rajat Gupta this was very helfpul most of them suggest to download an app and change setting within the app whereas this was a unique approach in solving the problem.

You are awesome 😘....I have been online since 6am looking for help but none of the videos could help. I'm glad I found you 😅😘😘😘😅😅😅😅

You are a lifesaver :'0 thank you so much for showing examples and being thorough!!

Thank you Very much for this! I am re-doing my videos due to lighting and sound issues and this will be sooo helpful! I read so many reviews of these types of mics for android phones and there were are a lot of people saying the mics wouldn't record any sound. Now, I know why they had their troubles ;)

Excellent tutorial. Amazing job. Thank you so much!

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I have been reading blog posts and looking at other YT vids with no luck. YOU ARE THE BOSS!

Thank you!!!! Your video just solved our problems!! And the link worked! So glad you explained the differences and made it easy to understand.

I have the same splitter as yours, but it doesn't work. I have soldered an xlr cable to a mono mini jack. I tested the cable and mic and they work. Now when I plug that cable into the splitter and connect the splitter to my Samsung Galaxy Note 9, my phone only recognzes headphobes, although I haven't even connected anything to the headphone part of the splitter. Needless to say nothing is being recorded to my voice or camera app.

thank you very good review. now i know how to get this external mike working.

Can you suggest an app for recording. Thanks

Thanks for this simple and good teaching. Big up bro

Do you have a tutorial for USB connections? Any advice for external microphone with Instagram or Facebook LIVE? Thank you!

Thank You Gupta Ji, very helpful video

This was fantastic, thank you so much!!

GOOD ONE MATE .....U SOLVED MY CONFUSIION ....

Thanks for the video! I wish I had seen this before buying my external microphone!

Bro u are the best

It worked for me without any hack, with original one plus converter. Mobile - oneplus7t, app - google camera (ext. Mic setting), mic - boyo

Thank you so much, I was wondering my mic doesnt work. :D

Extremely helpful tutorial. I was not told about the 3.5mm Audio Jack Splitter when I bought the mic and was wondering why the voice quality had not improved. For my 1+5 Android phone, which Audio Jack Splitter do you recommend ? And thanks you so so much for this wonderful tutorial 👏👏👏👏

Thank you sir Now i know atleast the direction

Great video, do you or anyone know if this works for everything within a phone concerning the mic? Such as calls or voice chat through other games. Or does it only work for voice recording?

This was a GREAT help . Much thanks.

Thanks man. Was trying to workout why my ext mic didn't seem to benefit my vids

THANK YOU for this video! I loved how you explained it by demonstrating. I am not an audo-tech person, and it was driving me crazy why I couldn't get my lav mic to work with my phone!

Thank you sir you solve my problem ❤️

You telling me some interesting information but sorry I just don't understand choking a little bit too fast for us English only folks to understand but thank you good luck and stay safe protect your families and loved ones from this virus

Does not work for me (Motorola G7 Plus + Boya BY-MM1), but what works is USB-OTG cable, USB sound card, microphone and headphones. Sound is then super clear. EDIT: On that specific phone I can go to video recording settings in HedgeCam2 application (which I normally use for RAW photos) and select Use external microphone (if connected). It's likely applied to all applications since then. I just can't find it anywhere in audio settings.

Sirji You seem to be the wisest person on earth who has taken the pain to make focuses on " how the inbuilt microphone of Android mobile cheats the beginner podcasters to connect a microphone via 3.5 mm jack & expect it to be a recorded from microphone. It took me 7 days of research to identify it to an extent that i recorded via microphone in one room and kept it connected via 6 MTR wire to mobile in another room, & nothing from microphone was recorded...👌👍✌️🙏 A suggestion, change the tutorial to " how we get cheated by inbuilt microphone of Android even after connecting microphone" This will broaden the search database and do wonders to your subscription... Thanks a ton.

Thank u Educational and helpful

Thank you so much sir for your packaged information.

Fantastic video, thank you! With this setup, would filming with the phone also use the audio from the microphone?

Finally i can use a mic i bought for pc for discord calls, thank you!

thank you very helpful ( is there any jack with a xlr male to trs jack)

Sir does this process helps in getting good sound in videorecording too ????

So useful. Many thanks.

Great video. Very informative. What to do if the mobile doesn’t have a 3.1 mm jack?

please give a link in description box to video that tells difference between TRS and TRRS jack.

Thank you man ypu are awesome mic man It was very helpful

Very helpful, thanks!

Awesome, Thanks,,, I'll give that a try

Thank you for your explanation sir, your explanation explained the most than any other tutorial on the internet. Thank You So Much🙏

Thank you so much you have truly helped me

Thanks for this video, my external microphone has TRRS pin, working with voice recorder but didn't work with video recording should I still get the TRRS splitter or something else?

Awesome thank you big help

What if you don't have a microphone adapter? Is there another solution? Please reply!

Message well delivered, thanks.

Super helpful. I couldn't figure out what was wrong for such a long time.

Thank you Mr. Gupta. Do you know how to set up a Yeti blue microphone in a laptop. I have been doing it but nothing, it does not respond . I updated software and still nothing, maybe there is something else that I am missing, take care and I hope you help me

This seems to be the stock answer everyone is giving on RU-vid but unfortunately it doesn't work on any android I've tried. I've tried it on S10+, Moto One, Moto G7+, and LG V30+. The missing piece in this video is a comparison of sound recording with the mic in and without the mic plugged in. Just using the TRRS adapter solution the devices continue to record with their internal mic so yes its recording sound, but not with the mic I want. The missing component here is something that forces the phone to use the connected external mic, simply plugging in the TRRS adapter doesnt force the device to pull sound from the mic. The only solution I've found so far is the Open Camera app which has a setting to choose the external mic but I dont like that solution. I want to use another camera app and have the sound pull from a TRRS external mic... so the search continues.

Your a life saver thank you for sharing solution to this 🙌🏾😁

Hi. I have a trrs cable that is recognized in the voice recorder app on my Samsung A12 but won't record direct audio when using the video camera. I want to record dj mixes using my phone for video and direct audio into the headphone/mic socket from my dj mixer,but the video only records with the built in mic. Any help would be gratefully received. Thanks in advance..

Really helpful thnx

cool. Can you get two channel audio recording with the stereo mic?

Many thanks for this video

Thanks for this video. This was really helpful

Thanks for the video please does this set up still apply to when I want to use it with laptop??? Because it's been few days now I couldn't connect it to my laptop

Hi, what if I have a newer iPhone and need to use the lightning to 3.5 mm Headphone Jack Adapter, will this cause a problem with the recording splitter ?

You have my gratitude, Rajat.

Thank you so much Rajat ... Finally I knew the issue from where and thank you for speaking in English!

You just saved me from my incoming despair! T_T

I have an external microphone with TRRS jack, then also it is not connecting with my huawei y6 pro(2017 version). What i have to do?

Thanks soo much.. very helpful..

great info thanks

A bought splitter but without colors on it and it dont work. I tried both of "holes" in this splitter. Can you help me please?

In which cam did u took this video? Plz reply

Thank you..I'm glad I watched this first..I would of flipped the fuck out trying to figure out how to use my new mic..lmfao...thanks man

Thanks Bud that's a very informative video. I have a question ,I have a mic with trrs plug. My phone just won't recognize the mic when connected through splitter.i want to use it for singing apps like smule. Can you suggest something ,please?

wow very help full video

Thanks for sharing. Finally an English video

Does this work for recording the audio on a video with an external microphone?

This video is to the point unlike some other RU-vidrs who speaks shit and will come to point only after 5 or more minutes .... Thank you brother.

Here is a question for you. My mic on my phone broke, no one can hear me on calls unless speaker phone, can't use voice to text, nothing. I bought a 3.5mm TRRS mic dongle and plugged it in and now I can do everything I used to be able to do.... except phone calls. The problem is it reads it as a head set so the phone call tries to route audio through a headset that isn't there. Is there a way to trick my phone into thinking that is the default mic without a headset? Or is there a way to use the mic and the phone speaker together? I have tried a few apps but they do not work in calls.

Apparently Bixby is what helps me get this to actually work. It doesn't pick the mic up on android sometimes but sometimes it does. Idk why that is but I'm really desperate to do this bc I'm tryna record piano on it.